New research suggests Bayeux Tapestry may have been designed for a monastery dining hall. A professor argues it could have ...

A study has, for the first time, identified minute traces of broomcorn millet consumption directly from human dental calculus ...

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

The timing of the course, called “Antisemitism Then and Now,” coincides with a rapid rise of antisemitism in the United ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest mysteries—the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry.

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...

On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle ...

Many Christians in the West have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith, according to New Testament ...

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By Hannah Confino JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into ...